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id: 30489
author: Combe, George
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title:
  Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834

summary:
  The combination of large organs of the Animal Propensities, with large Cautiousness, and only full Hope, together with the unfavourable circumstances in which he was placed, accounts for the melancholy and internal unhappiness with which Burns was so frequently afflicted. In the combination of very large Philoprogenitiveness and Adhesiveness, with very large Benevolence and large Ideality, we find the elements of that exquisite tenderness and refinement, which Burns so frequently manifested, even when at the worst stage of his career.


id: 25890
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3
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words: 17112
sentence: 704
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Polly Wilcox of Hope Valley, R. I., celebrated her centennial last year; so did Jane Wilcox of Edgecomb, Maine, while she had a sister 94, and a daughter 81. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, of Reading, Penn., who had lived a century, might be still living if she had not been killed last year, while walking on the railroad track.


id: 26401
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5
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words: 17830
sentence: 726
flesch: 58
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summary:
  [Illustration] No one can begin the study of brain development in men and animals guided by a correct system without being delighted with the uniform accuracy of the science; for even the incomplete and inaccurate science of Gall and Spurzheim, marred in its application by misconceptions of anatomy, has proved sufficiently correct and instructive to maintain its hold upon the minds of all students of nature, by giving them more truth than error, and _sometimes_ This has been so often demonstrated before many hundred thousands of spectators, that it is a matter of general knowledge everywhere among intelligent people,--everywhere except, perhaps, in the thick darkness of medical colleges, where ignorance upon such subjects has long been made the criterion of respectability, and perhaps among a few very orthodox congregations, where such things have been associated with the idea of witchcraft, and considered very offensive to the Lord.


id: 27758
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10
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words: 17723
sentence: 817
flesch: 61
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summary:
  It is for the suppression, imprisonment or banishment of such men as Hutton and the American bone-setter, Sweet, that American legislatures are besieged by medical monopolists. But he always exhorts laics not to dabble in it, and medical men to keep their hypnotic lore to themselves.


id: 27796
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
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words: 18295
sentence: 798
flesch: 60
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summary:
  The intellectual editor of the _Kansas City Journal_ has made some very philosophic remarks on the materialistic philosophy of fashionable Scientists, which with some abridgment are here presented: As an illustration of its methods of dealing with so subtle a thing as human intelligence, we have a recent singular example in Paris, by the eminent physician Charcot, and others, which illustrates how great men in special departments walk blindfold over things that afford no mystery to common minds. It presumes from your co-operation, that you are one of the very few truly progressive and large-minded mortals who really wish to lift mankind into a better condition, and who have that practical sagacity (which is rare among the educated) by which you recognize great truths in their first presentation before they have the support of the leaders of society.


id: 27717
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
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words: 18834
sentence: 841
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Into this field of mystery, Dr. Gall advanced with a courage unknown to his predecessors, and his success was equal to his courage. His discoveries in anatomy were so great that Reil (himself a brain anatomist of the highest rank, whose name is permanently associated with anatomy by the name Island of Reil, which belongs to the location in which Gall made his first discovery of the faculty and organ of language), Reil, I say, declared that Dr. Gall had shown him more in his dissections of the brain than he thought it possible for any one man to have discovered in his lifetime; and, in fact, some of the old anatomists, not having been personally instructed by Gall, professed to find it difficult, if not impossible, to unfold the brain after his manner.


id: 27812
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12
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words: 18400
sentence: 790
flesch: 60
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summary:
  The people need medical information, and Dr. Foote has for many years been the leader in popular medical enlightenment. The persons I thus came into contact with were representatives of many other countries than Great Britain.


id: 27570
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
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words: 18104
sentence: 751
flesch: 60
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summary:
  Such men are greatly needed to review a corrupt civilization; and where is the civilization now, where was there ever a civilization that was not corrupt? In the foregoing sketch very little is said of the real progress of the age--the increase of education, the uprising of the people into greater political power and liberty, the prostration of the power of the church, which is destined to disestablishment, and the uprising of spiritual science.


id: 27648
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7
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words: 19198
sentence: 738
flesch: 59
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summary:
  Thus the name, Volapük; _vola_ meaning of the world, and _pük_ language. Other men have succeeded splendidly in life, winning wealth, power, renown and friendship.


id: 27703
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8
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words: 19914
sentence: 775
flesch: 57
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summary:
  The very brief exposition of the structure and functions of the brain already given, may serve as an introduction to the subject and prepare the reader to appreciate the laborious investigations of many years, by means of which so comprehensive a science was brought into existence amid the hostile influences of established opinions and established ignorance. I ceased to agitate the subject for many years, and allowed myself to be drawn into the political agitations connected with our civil war, to mitigate some of its social and political evils.


id: 25819
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2
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words: 18728
sentence: 751
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Anthropology may need, like other new sciences, new terms for its new ideas, but the old words of plain English express all the very important elements of human nature. Is our critic so profoundly ignorant of the progress of psychic science as to think such representations fair or allowable?


id: 35748
author: Bunney, Joseph
title: Christian Phrenology: A Guide to Self-Knowledge
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sentence: 451
flesch: 38
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summary:
  Dr. Gall's mode of enquiry was plain and simple; thus he found that a desire for gain bore relation to the size of one part of the brain--he called it the organ of _theft_, because he found it largest in thieves; the propensity to destroy, he called _murder_, because he found it largest in individuals condemned for that crime--in like manner benevolence and other organs, for as Dr. Gall had not laid out any arrangement, a series of disjointed facts was all that could be arrived at, leaving their value to be determined at a future period, when the multitude of facts should require some arrangement. This organ is situated in the corner of the eye next the nose, and when large there is a considerable breadth across the nose at that place: its chief use is in the accurate knowledge of form, whether of persons or objects, and disposes the mind to give a definite form to objects even when unseen: it is to this the acute observation of objects, by which means we compare them one with another, or personal identity after absence and probable change in the form of features: to this organ many distinguished sculptors and architects owe much of their excellence, as its necessary action in connection with other organs would be to express an accuracy of outline: it is to an excessive use of this organ that painters study correctness of form in drawing, and neglect colouring; useful to architects for this reason.


id: 26317
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4
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words: 19996
sentence: 791
flesch: 60
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summary:
  With his princely salary he accomplished less than other men, living upon a salary he would have scorned. There are other great ideas, great discoveries, great reforms, not yet strong enough to be embodied in colleges, which medical legislation is designed to suppress, to enforce a creedal uniformity.


id: 22336
title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1
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words: 23043
sentence: 881
flesch: 54
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summary:
  Were Elliotson and Solly of London, the Combes of Scotland, Macartney of Ireland, and a full score of others in the highest ranks of medical science deceived in giving their testimony that the anatomy of the brain, its development in the healthy, its amply recorded pathology, revealed in hospitals, and its phenomena in the insane asylums and prisons, supported the doctrines of Gall? But finally the grand reconciliation must come from this, that when science advances into the psychic realm,--when it demonstrates the existence of the soul, and demonstrates that heaven is not a morbid dream but a splendid reality,--the religious sentiment will recognize such science as its friend; and when science goes farther, and interprets the Divine laws as written by omnipotent wisdom in the constitution of man, more plainly and far more fully than they have ever been expressed in religious writings, then will religion perceive that such science is the Divine messenger before whom it should bow in reverence, and whose every utterance should be held sacred.


id: 41501
author: Atkinson, William Walker
title: How to Read Human Nature: Its Inner States and Outer Forms
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sentence: 1376
flesch: 59
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summary:
  This Quality manifests in a strong desire to read character, discern human motives, interpret feelings and thoughts, and to _know_ men and women thoroughly. Instead of studying the philosophy or metaphysics of character, or even its general psychology, let us in this particular volume devote our attention to the elements which go to form the character of each and every person, so that we may understand them when we meet them in manifested form.


id: 21646
author: Windsor, William
title: How to Become Rich: A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
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words: 41360
sentence: 1885
flesch: 60
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summary:
  There are going to be hundreds of good men after you are all grandmothers. He has thoughts on machinery far beyond the comprehension of other men, and especially in the practical handling of complicated work.


id: 33223
author: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire)
title: The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology
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flesch: 48
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  AVERAGE.--Maintains a good share of self-government, except when under excitement, and then lets the whole mind out fully; with large Combativeness and an active temperament, though generally able to control resentment, yet, when once provoked, shows the full extent of its resentment; with large Cautiousness, sees that there is no danger before it lets the feelings fly; but with an excitable temperament, and especially a deranged stomach, shows a general want of policy and self-government, because the feelings are too strong to be kept in check; but if this faculty is manifested in connection with larger faculties, it evinces considerable power, yet is wanting when placed in opposition to them: p. 96. FULL.--Has good intellectual capabilities and much strength of mind, provided it is well cultivated; with large Acquisitiveness, a talent for acquiring property; with large moral organs, enlighten and improve the moral character; with large Constructiveness, give mechanical intelligence, etc. AVERAGE.--Evinces fair mental powers, provided they are cultivated, otherwise only moderate intellectual capabilities; with an excitable temperament, allow the feelings and larger faculties to control judgment; with large moral organs, has more piety than talents, and allows religious prejudices and preconceived doctrines to prevent impartial intellectual examination; with moderate Acquisitiveness, will never acquire property; with average Constructiveness, will be a poor mechanic, etc. MODERATE.--Is rather deficient in sense and judgment, yet not palpably so; can be easily imposed upon; is deficient in memory, and rather wanting in judgment, comprehension, and intellectual capacity.


